Mitten



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'1; N. MOORE;

MITTEN.

No. 290,787. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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ILA NEWBRE MOORE, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN.

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,787, dated December 25, 1883.

Application filed November 22. 1882.

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ILA N. MOORE, of Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved method of forming a thumb on a continuously-knitted thumbless mitten, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 1o drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a right-hand mitten made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of a left-hand 1nitten,the

thumb being turned back. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the 1nittcn,taken on the line 00 a: of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan View of the thumb of the mitten, taken on the line y 11 of Fig. 3.

The body A of the mitten is first knit or formed in a continuous web thumbless. If the mitten is intended for the right hand, the web is then cut in the palm, as shown at a,

Figs. 1 and 3, or if intended for the left hand, as shown at a, Fig. 2. The parts f thus separated from the palms form the backs of the thumbs of the mittens. The fronts or faces of the thumbs are formed or supplied by stitch- 3o ing the face-pieces d to the edges of the pieces f, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. These pieces d may be extended down to supply the places in the palms made vacant by cutting there- (No model.)

from the pieces f,- or separate pieces h maybe used for this purpose. The pieces d and h may be of leather or any other suitable material, and if it is desired to make the mittens very durable the palm and thumbs may be faced with leather over the pieces (1 and h, in which cases these pieces will be cloth or some inferior material. By cutting the pieces f inward into the palms, as shown at g, the thumbs are fashioned and the mittens given a good shape to fit properly upon the hands.

Mittens made in this manner are 'as good as the old form of mitten, and require much less work to make than where the thumbs are knit on themittens, or where they are made wholly separate from the body of the mittens and stitched in openings made in the body of the mittens to receive them, as is the ordinary practice.

Having thus described'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The method of making a mitten, which consists in knitting the body in one continuous web, nextcutting it to form the back piece of thumb, and finally sewing a piece to the back piece as well as the body to form the front of 60 thumb, as shown and described.

ILA NEWBRE MOORE.

witnesses:

THOMAS B. SKINNER, O. A. STEBBINS. 

